Machine for mincing meat



(NoModeL) LINTNER.

MACHINE FOR. MIN/GING MEAT.

No.. 293,754.. Patented Feb 19, 1884.

N4 PETERS. nubulha n her. Washington. 9.0.

UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

DANIEL H. LINTNER, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR MINICVING MEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,754, dated. February 19, 1884.

Application filed December 12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. LINTNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Mincing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.v

My invention relates to improvements in a mincing-machine patented by me, which Letters Patent are numbered 223,809, and dated January 27, 1880; and the object of my improvement is to prevent the rind and fat from packingin the slots of the plungers. I accomplish this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical side section through the boxes in which the meat is acted upon by the plungers and knives. Fig. 2 is a front sectional View through .70 0c, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective View of the lower end of I plunger 6.

My patent before mentioned is intended more particularly for mincing fatty matters,

meat, 8m. These are fed into the feed-hopper D. The mass thus cut off is sufficient to form a regular charge, which the slotted plunger b pushes through the upper knives, to, which cut it into slabs, when the vertical plunger 6, having a projecting set of chiselformed cutters f on the face next the open mouth of the hopper, forces the cut, slabs through the lower two series of knives W and V, moving at right angles to each other alternately in and out, thus cutting the slabs into square blocks, which drop or are forced through below. The inner end of the plunger bis slotted horizontally, as at m, while the lower face of the vertical plunger 6 is boxed out or slotted into square projections, as at a, in order to receive the knives with which they are to engage. It was discovered that the slots at and n gradually become packed with pieces of rind and other more solid parts, thereby preventing the proper action of the plungers, and compelling them to befrequently taken out and cleaned. I overcome this difiiculty by lengthening the slots back into the plungers, so that when they are pushed in on the knives to the fullest extent the horizontal slots extend back of the feed-hopper and the vertical slots above the top of the case B, and

then rigidly fasten cleaning-rods o o to and through the cases which pass through the slots at the points named. The rods '0 o fit the slots as tightly as may be Without retarding the motion of the plungers. and, being stationary, free the slots from all substances as the plungers are drawn back or outward.

It is not thought necessary to have rods run ning in more than one direction in the plum ger e, as one set is found to be sufficient to clean the slots at right angles to those in which they Work in the same plunger.

The exact location of the rods 12 umay be varied as may be thought best.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the slotted plungers b and e, the cleaning-rods o 12, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

D. H. LINTNER.

l/Vitnesses:

WM. R. GERHART, W. B. WILEY. 

